#catholicism

From infancy to death human life is surrounded by their (the angels) watchful care and intercession. Beside each believer stands an angel as protector and shepherd leading him to life. Already here on earth the Christian life shares by faith in the blessed company of angels and men united to God. ↗

— Catechism of the Catholic Church

#religious #death

Sacraments are like hoses. They are the channels of the living water of God's grace. Our faith is like opening the faucet. We can open it a lot, a little, or not at all. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#christianity #faith #god #god-s-grace #grace

An institution is right or it is wrong. One that cannot accept dinosaur bones is one that cannot be trusted on more important matters. ↗

— Fletcher Wortmann

#religion #religion

When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#buddhist #catholicism #closer #committed #disillusioned

The Catholic Church made a serious mistake when they started caring about how many people are in the pews. ↗

— Michel Templet

#philosphy #religion #religion

You know, in high school I thought Catholicism was funny and sort of ridiculous, but then I also liked it, too. Like, I definitely turned to it in times of trouble. ↗

— Julia Sweeney

#catholicism #definitely #funny #high #high school

Eagleton has spent his life inside two mental boxes, Catholicism and Marxism, of both of which he is a severe internal critic—that is, he frequently kicks and scratches at the inside of the boxes, but does not leave them. Neither are ideologies that loosen their grip easily, and people who need the security of adherence to a big dominating ideology, however much they kick and scratch but without daring to leave go, hold on to it every bit as tightly as it holds onto them. The result is of course strangulation, but alas not mutual strangulation: the ideology always wins. ↗

— A.C. Grayling

#eagleton-terry #ideology #marxism #life

For more than a year, he'd felt destined to marry Isabel Arundell; now, suddenly, he wasn't so sure. He loved her, that was certain, but he also resented her. He loved her strength and practicality but resented her overbearing personality and tendency to do things on his behalf without consulting him first; loved that she tolerated his interest in all things exotic and erotic but hated her blinkered Catholicism. Charles Darwin had killed God but she and her family, like so many others, still clung to the delusion. ↗

— Mark Hodder

#catholicism #charles-darwin #god #love #religion

The Reformer is always right about what's wrong. However, he's often wrong about what is right. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#christianity #humor #protestantism #reformation #religion

The Best ideal is the true and other truth is none. All glory be ascribed to the holy Three in One. ↗

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

#religion #trinity #religion